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Each text style you're including in the TOC has a separate setting (Edit: in the TOC panel) that controls whether page numbers show or not. 1.9 changed its appearance. It was a check box on the right of the text style name. Now you have to click on the hamburger menu on the right of the text style name.

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Sorry. Poor wording on my part. It's in the TOC panel.

-- Walt
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19 hours ago, pcdlibrary said:

OK. Had to checkmark each of the TSTs I'm using. Can you have the page number before the title? This is a nifty feature; I should have learned it long ago.

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Found & check marked 'Numbers before headings.' How do you delete tabs, except by doing it manually? Find/replace does not work.

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35 minutes ago, pcdlibrary said:

Found & check marked 'Numbers before headings.' How do you delete tabs, except by doing it manually? Find/replace does not work.

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Found the setting to move the tab stops to the left, in the para panel. Still need to remove tabs manually?

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19 hours ago, pcdlibrary said:

Found the setting to move the tab stops to the left, in the para panel. Still need to remove tabs manually?

Aside: This is quite convoluted, <rant on> in my opinion the whole method of designing a ToC is an exercise in battling many poor choices in the design of the software. <rant off>

This will be in the Text Styles panel.

Use the Move tool to select the ToC frame and you should be able to see the various ToC Text Styles in the Text Styles panel, edit the appropriate style.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Aside: This is quite convoluted, <rant on> in my opinion the whole method of designing a ToC is an exercise in battling many poor choices in the design of the software. <rant off>

This will be in the Text Styles panel.

Use the Move tool to select the ToC frame and you should be able to see the various ToC Text Styles in the Text Styles panel, edit the appropriate style.

Sorry; not finding it.

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Could you provide a sample .afpub document to illustrate your problem?

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15 hours ago, pcdlibrary said:

Here is a sample. The TOC, as generated, reflected an 85pt font size.

I'm not sure what you mean by an 85pt font size as generated. It's not that now.

In any case, you can't easily get rid of the tab stops. But what you can do is the following:

  1. With the Move Tool, click outside the TOC text frame, then click on the TOC text frame, so it is selected but the text cursor is not placed in the text. (Or, you could click outside the TOC text frame, then select the frame in the Layers panel.) This will make the TOC text styles visible in the Text Styles panel.
  2. In the Text Styles panel, right-click on "TOC 1: Entry" and choose "Edit TOC 1: Entry".
  3. Click on Tab Stops in the Paragraph section, and delete the right-aligned tab stop at location 0p. This will move the TOC text to the left.
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  4. There's still the tab to deal with. Your default tab stop is set to 3p, which seems a bit wide, so we'll make one more change to "TOC 1: Entry". Still in Paragraph, Tab Stops, change the Default to 1p. Then click OK.
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-- Walt
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    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
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I have looked at the file you included (copy Sept 2021 newsletter.afpub) and I have to be honest, if you had started from scratch instead of using an idml file you would probably be finished by now. There are so many things coming in which do not translate into features that Publisher has or can utilize. I suspect the problems you are having with the table of contents are caused by some features from indesign being mangled by one or more settings in InDesign which has/have no analog in Publisher.

It is like you have a collection of Cassette Tapes and a CD Player, there is no easy way to listen to the tapes' music.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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